1000 Classical Characters Briefly Described

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Themis

Daughter of Uranus and Ge, who was married to Zeus (Jupiter), and by whom she became the mother of the Horae, Eunomia, Dice (Astraea), Irene, and of the Moerae.

In the Homeric poems Themis is the personification of the order of things established by law, custom, and equity, whence she is described as reigning in the assemblies of men, and as convening, by the command of Zeus, the assembly of the gods.

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